THE SMILING WILDERNESS

Camden House, Camden East, 1984, 1st.  ISBN 0-920656-34-X.  Hard cover, 192 pages including Appendices (Maps, Bibliography, Illustration Credits, Acknowledgements, and 1984 Lennox and Addington County Council).  Green cloth with gold lettering on spine; sunning along top and bottom edges; top front corner fraying; fraying at top spine; a few marks on boards.  Binding sound with head and tail bands.  Dust jacket in poor condition; tape repairs on both front and verso, losses with a larger chunk missing at upper rear and part of spine; rubs and some stains.  Brown end papers; some foxing on outer page block, small stain on last page; many ‘best wishes’ inscriptions on front paste-down and end paper.  Remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Black & white photos, maps and line drawings; printed on heavier stock paper.  ‘Lennox and Addington County covers a sprawling area of almost 1,100 square miles, stretching from the Bay of Quinte northward to the maze of lakes in the Canadian Shield.  Settled at first by United Empire Loyalists and later by American and European pioneers, the land is now a testament to the rugged endurance of the families who attempted to build their fortunes on an often inhospitable land. … Within these pages are photographs and tales of the past that combine to portray pioneer life in this county.’ (from front flap)